The concept for Bravo's new reality show "Miss Advised" can be summed up simply as "dating and relationship expert, heal thyself," to which we might add: "Just do it where we don't have to watch."

Three women who ought to know better basically don't when it comes to their own social lives. Emily Morse hosts a radio talk show in San Francisco called "Sex With Emily." Julia Allison is a writer and TV commentator. She was in Chicago for a long time, but in Monday's premiere episode of "Miss Advised," she moves to Los Angeles because Midwestern men get married too young, making them unavailable as dating fodder. And Amy Laurent is a New York matchmaker who insists she has a heart beneath her brittle exterior. If you're a client and don't toe the line by doing exactly what she advises and never telling her a lie, expect to be sent packing - alone.

Executive-produced by actress Ashley Tisdale ("High School Musical"), "Miss Advised" has one thing in common with other dating shows like "The Bachelor," "The Bachelorette," "The Choice" and "Take Me Out": You learn enough about the participants to suggest you might want to stay as far away from them as possible.

Julia seems the most levelheaded and genuine of the three women, but she hasn't even unpacked from her move to Los Angeles when she finds a guy on Craigslist (no, not in THAT part of Craigslist, she hastens to tell her roommate), goes to dinner with him, realizes immediately they have no chemistry, but keeps him dangling for a while until she can sweet-talk him into helping her lug moving boxes into her new digs. After that, she dumps him on the phone. Of course, her own breakup rule for others is "always do it in a classy manner."

In this case, that would be not just texting him, I guess.

Do guys behave this way? Absolutely, and being a manipulative user is an unattractive habit for either gender. After a healthy dating life, Julia wants a husband now, but after seeing what she does with the poor Craigslist schmo, any guy watching the show would be well advised to look for a relationship without this kind of heavy lifting.

Amy wants to settle down and match herself, for a change, to the man of her dreams. She ignores her own advice and goes to dinner with her ex, AB (pronounced "Abie," as in "Abie's Irish Rose"), who's relocated to Saudi Arabia and is back in New York to run the marathon. They have an awkward dinner, with Amy breaking more of her own rules.

"I'm not here to make you feel bad," she tells AB, and we know exactly where that sentence is going: "But you could have handled (their relationship) better."

You can just see the guy thinking, So when is the next plane back to Riyadh?

Emily isn't a big fan of monogamy. Her older brother Michael, visiting from Michigan, is the only steady man in her life, she says, and one reason is that he holds her feet to the fire about her peripatetic personal life. If Emily wanted to find serious romance, she could, he insists, but she has commitment issues. He points out that although she's had a dog for the past few months, the animal is often staying with others.

Where's he now, Michael asks?

With its "doggy daddy," her ex, she says sheepishly.

The important thing for a dating show to succeed often seems to be to find people you probably would be crazy to date.

But what about viewers? What are they looking for? Is it to live vicariously in the Jimmy Choos of whoever is handing out roses, or, perhaps, to be able to heave huge sighs of relief that they dodged this kind of bullet in their own lives?

If it's the latter reason, they've dodged three of them in the case of "Miss Advised," all going very wide of the mark.